The features in the feed module: "Hide feed if no content", "Visible after published to contact" and "Pinned content in a feed", brings a lot of new opportunities for you when working with your employee app.

In this article we will showcase the following three use cases with the new feed features - and guide you through the steps to build these use cases in your app:

For a thorough walkthrough of the feed module settings please read the article "How to use the feed module".

With the updated features in the feed module it is now possible to build a feed that will only be visible if there are content in the feed, meaning that we can now avoid the "Nothing to read here" message in an empty feed.

Furthermore it is possible to select a certain time period for how long time the messages in a feed should be visible to the contact.

This can be useful in many situations where we have some messages targeted to a specific group of contacts - and in this part of the article we will show how it can be used for onboarding purposes.

We will create an onboarding feed on the App Homepage with messages targeted employees in onboarding. For all the employees that are NOT in onboarding the feed will be hidden.

First, create a category for the onboarding feed. Go to admin settings, messages, create a new category and save. In this case we have created the category "Onboarding".

Next, create the onboarding feed. In this case we will add the onboarding feed to the App homepage, since we want the messages to be visible for the new employees as soon as they download the app and open the app homepage.

Navigate to the App homepage and add a feed module with messages:

Settings in the onboarding feed module:

Advanced settings in the onboarding feed module:

Now your feed is ready and you can create your onboarding content. Remember to add the "Onboarding" category on the onboarding content for them to be visible in the onboarding feed.

Let's take a look in the app and see how things will look here.

Employee in onboarding: Employee NOT in onboarding:

Employees in onboarding will see the onboarding messages in the top of the homepage (left screen), while employees that are NOT in onboarding will see only the app homepage with the news feed.

Voila 🙌

With the new feature "Hide feed if no content" we can use a feed to create a navigation from eg. the app homepage to a segmented area of the app that is only supposed to be accessible for a specific group of contacts.

The message preview in the feed will act as the navigation to the segmented area - and the feed will only be visible for a contact if there is content in the feed.

This can be useful in many situations and in this article we will show how it can be used to create a navigation to local department landingpages of a global company.

We will refer to the feed as a "navigation feed" in the following description of how to build this navigation.

First, create a category for the navigation feed. Go to admin settings, messages, create a new category and save. In this case we have created the category "Local department".

Next, create the navigation feed for the local department landingpages. We want the navigation on the App homepage so we have navigated to the homepage and added a feed module with messages:

Now your navigation feed is ready and you can create your local department landingpages. Remember to add the "Local Department" category to the landingpages and publish them to the specific groups of contacts.

Let's take a look in the app and see how the navigation to the segmented area will look!

Employee with a local landingpage: Employee without a local landingpage:

Employees with a local landingpage will have the navigation in the top of the App homepage (left screen), while employees without a local landingpage will only see the app homepage with the news feed (right screen).

With the "pinned content" feature it is possible to pin messages in a feed for a specific time period.

This is very useful for things like Breaking News, Shiftplans, Important announcement, HQ news etc.

In this article we will showcase how to add "Breaking News" as pinned content to the newsfeed on the App homepage.

First, create a category for the pinned content. Go to admin settings, messages, create a new category and save. In this case we have created the category "Breaking news".

Navigate to the feed module where you want to pin content.

It is only possible to add one category for pinned content - and the pinned content will be sorted after first published date.

Let's take a look in the app and see how the pinned content will look.

The pinned messages is placed in the top of the feed - and the category illustrates that the message is pinned with the pinned icon.

When the time period for the pinned content expires the message will automatically appear in the regular part of the feed.